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[GreenDragon5]

Hi GreenDragon! They do definitely have some great juices. Best of luck with the build your owns - what did you get?

1st one:
Flavor 1*:White Chocolate
Flavor 2*:Raspberry
Flavor 3:Blueberry
Flavor 4:Cake (Yellow)
"Parts" Flavor 1:3
"Parts" Flavor 2:1
"Parts" Flavor 3:3
"Parts" Flavor 4:5

2nd one:
Flavor 1:Green Tea
Flavor 2:Goji Berry
Flavor 3: Dragon Fruit
Flavor 4:Sweetener
"Parts" Flavor 1*:3
"Parts" Flavor 2*:3
"Parts" Flavor 3:4
"Parts" Flavor 4:2

Also ordered Guava, Sugar Cookie, and Vanilla Custard. I wanted to try out some new "dessert" vapes which is why I kind of went a little crazy on the sweets.

Still reading really great stuff about these guys, I think next order will have to have some "tobacco" and more savory flavors. Any suggestions for these?

 

[Seanchai]

Seanchai...I haven't tried Bananas Foster, but IIRC there are a couple people who really like it. I think Bananas Gone Nuts might have beat it for the popularity win, though...

Haven't tried Bananas Gone Nuts either, though I've heard a lot of good things about it. Banana Cream Pie almost made it into the cart last time, but it got beat out by Butter Pecan. So many juices, so little time.

Started doing tax return computations last night and ended up with mom suggesting it's about time for me to replace my laptop (true, this one will probably only last a few more months). On the other hand, that'll eat my planned mod/juice money. Mom's response was "no it won't, treat yourself!" I'm hoping I can get her to put the brakes on long enough for me to actually think this over and hit the most important stuff first - home improvements, hand controls for the car, trip to MI, *then* deciding on laptop vs. vape stuff... but we'll see. She just gets so excited about having any money to spend, and she knows I lose out a lot in the discretionary income dept (whenever there's a bills shortfall, I cover it), so she's trying to be nice... but ack, stop making it so hard for me to be responsible!

I have finally convinced her to put enough money by so that we can go see my great-aunt over spring break. She's in her late 80s and has never met us kids, and she's helped us a lot over the years and has no other family, so we owe her a visit. Unfortunately she lives in the Middle of Nowhere, TX, which is why we haven't been to see her sooner... and that means quite a drive. It should be a nice visit, though... this particular aunt is the family historian so I'm expecting a lot of interesting stories.

As an added bonus, it should get mom the rest of the way on the vaping train. She's been vaping as long as I have, but unlike me, she's never quit smoking all the way and has good days and bad when it comes to sticking with vaping (what it comes down to is, she wants something that kicks like the MVP, has the customization of an RBA, but comes in the form of an auto 808 with a carto... and we're still having the "that does not exist - would you like a vv Ego with a carto tank? An RBA and I'll build your coils? No, I promise, you will not get the battery life and the power of my MVP out of that cigalike 808, it's not physically possible..." conversation). Anyway, she refuses to smoke around my aunt, so she's got new incentive to quit altogether, which is a good thing. Hopefully I can get the Goldilocks of gear some reasonably priced gear she'll be happy with, at some point.

.... and no, Mia, a Reo will not do. She doesn't even like hitting a button to vape.

 

[Stoneface]

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Still reading really great stuff about these guys, I think next order will have to have some "tobacco" and more savory flavors. Any suggestions for these?

I can recommend Hawk Sauce...it's not exactly "savory" but it's not super sweet either. It's probably my favorite MBV juice

 

[Seanchai]

Still reading really great stuff about these guys, I think next order will have to have some "tobacco" and more savory flavors. Any suggestions for these?

For tobaccos, I like 555 and Vanilla Tobacco. I know Coumarin Tobacco also has its fans here, but others who vape tobaccos more than I do might have more suggestions. Be aware that the tobaccos need some serious steep time... about 3 weeks to meld, and then another 3 weeks or more if you want the tobacco flavor to be prominent.

For savory flavors, Graham Cracker is really good - it's slightly sweet, but not what I'd consider a dessert vape, definitely on the savory side of things. Peanut Butter has legions of fans here; that one hasn't made it into my cart yet, but only because there are so many other flavors I want to try.

 

[Stoneface]

Haven't tried Bananas Gone Nuts either, though I've heard a lot of good things about it. Banana Cream Pie almost made it into the cart last time, but it got beat out by Butter Pecan. So many juices, so little time.
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.... and no, Mia, a Reo will not do. She doesn't even like hitting a button to vape.

Honestly, I think if I were to try a banana vape (which I don't really want to do), the Banana Cream Pie would be the first one in my cart. So I understand why you might choose that one

I hope you do get to meet your aunt I remember when I was a kid and visiting the family historian. I always liked to hear all of the stories, and I used to get in trouble because I would pull out the "Family Bible." Do you guys have one of those?? Ours was a huge book that detailed family history going back generations...even from before my family made it to the US. It was fascinating, even though I completely sucked at history when I was in school

 

[roonies]

yes, and it's dreamy. if it's too acidic for you, you can add any of the creams, like whipped cream, sweet cream, bavarian cream, or butter cream. LOVE it!!!

anone try mbvs orange dream bar?

 

[roonies]

Having been raised in So. Dak. I can tell you that is definitely a prairie dog. They're everywhere out at Mr. Rushmore because the tourists feed them. Cute but huge menace just by their sheer numbers out on the prairie.

Sticking my neck way out here, but, I am pretty sure that rascal in the first pic is indeed a ground squirrel. I've seen those ears in a rifle scope many times.

Not every day is a good day to be a squirrel.

But there are ways around it.

 

[Seanchai]

Honestly, I think if I were to try a banana vape (which I don't really want to do), the Banana Cream Pie would be the first one in my cart. So I understand why you might choose that one

I have a feeling that if I do venture into banana vapes, that one will probably be the first one. There's a lot riding on whether I can stand the other vendor's juice, to be honest... having never vaped banana anything, my first impression of that will determine whether I'm brave enough to venture into others!

I hope you do get to meet your aunt I remember when I was a kid and visiting the family historian. I always liked to hear all of the stories, and I used to get in trouble because I would pull out the "Family Bible." Do you guys have one of those?? Ours was a huge book that detailed family history going back generations...even from before my family made it to the US. It was fascinating, even though I completely sucked at history when I was in school

Oh, I have a story about the Family Bible. Two, actually.

First one: When I was about 12, the same aunt heard I was learning Irish and Xeroxed pages from the family bible for me to try to put in order. Mom got to it first and decided to give it a go... an hour or so later she called me into the room with, "You have to come here and figure this out, I think I have my great-great-grandfather marrying his sister!" I took a look and discovered the problem pretty quickly... being a good Irish family, every set of parents had 8-10 kids each, all of whom were named Patrick, James, or William, and all the girls were Mary or Ann. As you moved back in the lineage, Patrick/James/William became Padraig/Seamus/Liam and Mary/Ann became Maire/Aine, and the English/Irish versions were used interchangeably throughout the bible listings, so it took some detective work (and some knowledge of how Irish names are rendered *in* Irish) to figure out which references to William/Liam were *the same person* and which were his sons/grandsons/etc.

Second one: About a year ago, mom and I were going through some of her mother's things (her mother died in 2000, but the packing and sorting of things is understandably a haze for her, so there were a lot of things just boxed up and brought here that she doesn't remember boxing up and hadn't had a chance to look through). We found a pile of correspondence from a very lettered gentleman - CPL So-and-so, Professor Emeritus, etc etc) begging for copies of the family bible (huh?). It looked like my grandmother (the sister of my great-aunt from whence the original genealogy came) must have had a *different* family bible in her possession that went even further back and/or was even more complete, and this gentleman, a distant relation of some kind, wanted it to complete his own family picture. We had no knowledge of this "other" bible and were mystified - why would each sister have a family bible? Were they from the two *different* sides? And where the heck was it?

I called my great aunt to ask, and got, "Oh, you mean Mother's bible... yes, it was in your grandmother's things, I have it now. It's too fragile to mail, I'm afraid. What did you need from it?"

Turns out, on my grandmother's maternal side, we are, via different sub-branches of the family:

Eligible for the women of the family to join the Daughters of the American Revolution (turns out that's why the gentleman wanted *this* bible!)

Related to Bob Dylan

And, myself and that buddy of mine, the one who's been a friend since high school? We're long lost cousins.

All that from one bible!

More stories await me in Texas, I'm sure.

 

[Sambuca]

good to see you putting the pen to paper, so to speak, Sean!

 

[Stoneface]

That is cool Seanchai...no doubt you will come back with some similar info. I'm hoping I can photograph our Family Bible the next time I go visit. It would take days, but it might be worth it

 

[roonies]

I totally agree. I bought two and I hate the attached metal drip tip. It's huge! I think there are some new smaller models in pyrex here. Smoktech Pyrex ARO II - Red

So these Aro Pyrex bottom coil tanks - they're so.........big.
And cold.
And metal-y

 

[Seanchai]

That is cool Seanchai...no doubt you will come back with some similar info. I'm hoping I can photograph our Family Bible the next time I go visit. It would take days, but it might be worth it

I hope you can! I'm hoping to come back with my aunt's bibles in hand - I'm relatively sure she'll be happy to let me have them (there's not really anyone else in the family to leave them to, and I know she'd rather *hand* them to me rather than have them mailed to me after she's gone), and I'd really like to try to assemble the complete picture. I can trace both sides of the family back as far as 1845 (on my father's side) and 1847 (on my mother's), and then most of it evaporates into the mists of Ireland, so to speak. I have most of the information on the various branches that married in - the Germans on my father's side, the British and Americans on my mother's - but about 80% of my blood is Irish, and that's the stuff that's missing. I have their Grosse Ile paperwork (they all came through Canada, as Ellis was refusing quite a lot of Irish immigrants during the Famine years) but that falls under the category of "cool but useless," since it lists everyone's place of birth as "Belfast" - the point of departure for most emigrant ships.

For quite a long time, I thought I had narrowed it down to Co. Wicklow (mom's side) and Co. Monaghan (dad's side), but when mom went over to Ireland, she did some sleuthing of her own and was told Co. Sligo was the best bet for her side. Since she was staying with friends not too far from there, she took a day trip there to check that possibility.

Upon giving the genealogy center there the surnames in question, she was told, "Oh, it's John you want. Go three streets that way and a few houses down, just knock on his door, he'll sort you out."

Bemused, she did as she was told, and an elderly man came to the door. Mom hesitantly inquired, and the man's lip curled a bit. "(Surname)? There be none of those *here*. That's a *Cork* name. Sure the only reason *I'm* here is from passing through."

Mom went back to the genealogy center and related the story to them, only to be greeted with laughter. "Don't mind him, he's always that way. He "passed through" 97 years ago, sure he hasn't finished yet!"

I think it's entirely likely - indeed, probable - that the town(s) my family are from no longer exist - that's the case with a lot of Famine emigrants, and would account for the trouble I've had nailing anything down.

 

[Stoneface]

I don't know if there is another way to run down the Irish family or not, but I do have a friend who is currently tracing his Italian family history. He's even traveled to Italy for it, and he has made some genealogy buddies in some forum somewhere. They help each other out. I'm sorry I don't know more about it, but you might be able to find it somewhere....

 

[Ozwald]

Having been raised in So. Dak. I can tell you that is definitely a prairie dog. They're everywhere out at Mr. Rushmore because the tourists feed them. Cute but huge menace just by their sheer numbers out on the prairie.

Hard for me to say without knowing what kind of birds those are to put size into proportion, but the prairie dogs are definitely bigger than our gophers - other than that they look pretty much identical. They're both ground squirrels so it doesn't really matter anyways, the poor thing is about to lose his nuts!!

 

[Ozwald]

Oh & I picked up my mail this morning. Cucumber Mint I definitely won't forget to request my sample ever again.

 

[Seanchai]

I don't know if there is another way to run down the Irish family or not, but I do have a friend who is currently tracing his Italian family history. He's even traveled to Italy for it, and he has made some genealogy buddies in some forum somewhere. They help each other out. I'm sorry I don't know more about it, but you might be able to find it somewhere....

I'll turn up more eventually, I'm sure... mostly, it's a matter of how much I can turn up without a paper trail, because apart from the Family Bibles, there isn't one to speak of. Most pre-Famine records were kept only in the local churches, when they were kept at all, and point of entry records from the US when it comes to Famine Irish are relatively useless because everything is Anglicized so as to literally be beyond recognition - some by the officials who were filling out the paperwork, but quite a lot by the immigrants themselves, who had a vested interest in claiming to be "Scots-Irish," which was seen as affluent/acceptable, as opposed to Famine Irish (seen as Irish-speaking unwashed starving beggars). So, for example, one of my twice-great grandmothers actually gave her name to the officials as Anna, but it's in the Bible as Ann, and buried further toward the back, it's listed as Aine. Aine isn't Ann - it's neither the same name nor pronounced anywhere near the same - but if I were to Anglicize Aine on short notice, I'd go with Ann or Anna.

My twice great grandfather's obituary calls him "a good and honest businessman, for an Irishman" and I have a photocopy of a sign from around the same time period that says, "No Irish Or Dogs Need Apply." I keep both around to remind me that that generation wasn't trying to rob me of knowing my history, or of their native tongue... they were trying to make their way the best they could in a country that didn't want any part of them, and me having big blank spots in my history and having to relearn a language that my ancestors once spoke with perfect fluency are just the natural consequences of the situation they were in at the time.

One of these days, I hope to be able to go to Ireland specifically to go poking around enough churches to find the right paperwork - that's going to be the best way to find anything concrete.

 

[Stoneface]

My family's lineage is not Irish, but I'd like to go to Ireland some day If you do go, I hope you catch one of those miraculous rare breaks

 

[Ozwald]

Good luck Sean. I know it can be frustrating.

With my father's side of the family our entire history is lost & highly unlikely to be dug up. My grandfather was born in/near Vilnius & slipped out under the Iron Curtain. He died when my father was too young to learn/understand it all, so the only family member who knew the history after he died was an uncle. He was going to take my father back to Lithuania (I guess he'd been back after Lithuania had earned her freedom) & show him what he knew/learned but then the uncle died pretty suddenly. So there's really nothing to trace, no names or anything. That's as much as I understand of it. The only one on that entire side of the family that I've ever known was my father.

 

[macaroni]

I keep both around to remind me that that generation wasn't trying to rob me of knowing my history, or of their native tongue... they were trying to make their way the best they could in a country that didn't want any part of them, and me having big blank spots in my history and having to relearn a language that my ancestors once spoke with perfect fluency are just the natural consequences of the situation they were in at the time.

One of these days, I hope to be able to go to Ireland specifically to go poking around enough churches to find the right paperwork - that's going to be the best way to find anything concrete.

Interesting .... my family on my fathers side (grandfather & grandmother) came to the US in 1917. My grandparents vowed that the family would no longer be "Italian" that they would be American. They made their children (my aunts, uncles, & father) promise that they would require their male children to enter the military to "earn" our place in our new country .... they would not allow their children to learn to speak Italian ... and no one was to ever set foot in Italy again. All three promises were kept.

Through my life I waffled between being proud of my grandparents for fully embracing our new home, and feeling "we" had a debt to pay. And despising them for robbing me of my heritage.

Now my grandparent are long LONG gone .... and my parents are long gone ... and still no one of my generation (or the following generation for that matter) have learned Italian or stepped foot in Italy. Old habits are hard to break I guess.

 

[Stoneface]

I've not been to any of the countries of my heritage (yeah, I'm a mutt ), but I would like to one day... I have done some reading about some of the notable ancestors.